Surgery cot



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suRGERi COT F-iled Sept. 14, 1942 Z'awardSa/buafl, Gera/d .S'. Baker;

Patented Apr. 25, 1944 UNITED STATES rarEN'r orrlcs SURGERY COT Gerald S. Baker and Edward Sullivan, Fostoria,

Ohio

Application September 14, 1942, Serial No. 458,285

1 Claim. (Cl. -32) This invention relates to a portable patient carrying device, especially adapted for use in hospitals and similar establishments for moving a patient from place to place, such as from a bed to an operating table and from the latter back to the bed.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a device of the above stated character which will permit easy and quick transferring from place to place of a patient without directly taking hold of and lifting the patient as is the present practice, consequently eliminating discomfort both physically and mentally to the patient.

With these and other objects in view as will become more apparent as the description proceeds, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

For a complete understanding of our invention, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is a top plan view illustrating a bed with the stretcher or cot of the present invention thereon and showing in dotted lines a patient reclining on the fabric sheet of the cot or stretcher prior to connecting the fabric sheet to the frame of the stretcher or cot.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary side elevation showing the cot or stretcher on the bed supporting the patient elevated from the bed.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary sectional View showing a portion of the cot or stretcher frame and a runner thereof located in the plane of said frame and the fastening means for securing the runner in a depending position.

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 showing the different positions that the runner occupies with respect to the frame of the cot or stretcher.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary transverse sectional view showing the means of detachably connecting the fabric sheet to the frame of the cot or stretcher.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the numeral 5 indicates as an entirety a conventional type of hospital bed and 6 the cot or stretcher.

The cot or stretcher forming a part of the present invention consists of an elongated rigid frame 8, the length and width of said frame being such that the frame may be let down over a person reclining in the bed without contacting the person. The fabric sheet of the cot or stretcher is indicated by the character 9. The width and length of the fabric sheet are greater shown in Figure 1.

than the width and length of the frame 8 and said sheet is provided with a plurality of eyelets it adjacent the edges thereof. The frame 8 is equipped with a plurality of hooks I I. The number of hooks corresponds with the number of eyelets in the fabric sheet.

Sleeve type bearings I2 are formed on the side portions of the frame 8 adjacent the end portions and have journaled therein the ends of runners IS. The bearings 12 are equipped with spring influenced detents M which may enter openings I5 in the runners l3 when the latter are arranged out of the plane of the frame 8 and in depending relation thereto, as shown in Figure 2.

To place a patient who is resting on the bed on the cot or stretcher, the sheet 9 is first rolled similar to the usual rolling of the bed sheet in a hospital for passage under the person with the least amount of disturbance to the patient, so that the fabric sheet 9 takes a position, as shown in Figure l, on the bed with the patient lying thereon. The frame 8 is then lowered over the patient until it rests upon the fabric sheet, as

The runners then are positioned to lie in the same plane as the plane of the frame. The edges of the fabric sheet 9 are then brought over the frame 8 and the eyelets l0 passed over the hook shaped elements 5 l. The fabric sheet 9 is then firmly attached to the frame 8. The runners are then moved into depending positions by first lifting upwardly on one end of the frame 8 and swinging the runner at said end downwardly until the detents enter the openings ofsaid runner. The other runner is brought into a depending position in a like manner. Thus the patient becomes supported on the bed as shown in Figure 2, that is elevated away from the bed. With the patient thus positioned on the cot or stretcher, the patient is then ready to be slid from the bed and carried to any place desired, such as an operating table.

The cot or stretcher bearing the patient may be placed on the operating table in a manner like that shown on the bed in Figure 2 and the runners are then brought into a plane with the frame of the cot or stretcher allowing the frame 8 to rest directly on the operating table. The frame 8 may be removed by unfastening the sheet of fabric 9 therefrom if desired. In many instances, the frame 8 may remain on the operating table. In all instances the sheet of fabric may remain under the patient either while in bed or on the operating table after it has been once placed under the patient.

Thus it will be seen from the foregoing description and accompanying drawing a very eflicient device has been provided whereby a patient may be removed from a bed and transferred to an operating table with a minimum disturbance to the patient. While it has been specifically stated that this device is for transferring patients from beds to operating tables and vice versa, it also may be employed for transferring patients to X-ray machines from beds and vice versa and further may be employed for transferring patients from a bed to any place desired within a hospital or like establishment.

While we have shown and described the preferred embodiment of our invention, it will be understood that minor changes in construction, combination and arrangement of parts may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

Having thus described the invention, what we claim is:

In a stretcher for moving a reclining person off and onto a bed, a sheet adapted to lie flatly on a bed with a reclining person thereon and having eyelets located adjacent the edges thereof, a one-piece rigid substantially rectangular shaped frame having a width and length less than the width and length of the sheet and resting thereon with the person lying within the frame, curved pins formed on the frame and extending in the direction of the person, said sheet adapted to have the edge portions thereof rolled upwardly and over the frame with the eyelets positioned on the pins, socket members formed on the frame and extending outwardly and longitudinally from said frame, runners arranged transversely of the frame and having opposed arcuately curved end portions entering the sockets for pivotally mounting the runners on the frame to underlie the latter and at right angles thereto or to lie in a plane of the frame and beyond the ends of the frame to provide hand rails, and means for releasably securing the runners against pivotal '20 movement when in either of the mentioned positions.

GERALD S. BAKER.

EDWARD SULLIVAN. 

